Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm, and now hosted by Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
This week’s topic:
Top 5 books with numbers in the title
(What are the magic numbers in your books?)
I’m throwing up this Tuesday-themed meme on a Thursday ‘cause I’ve been MIA these past few days.
These aren’t the top books I’ve read with a number in the title. Instead, they are a random assortment of books I was able to find on my shelves that have a number in the title.
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
1602: Witch Hunter Angela by Marguerite Bennett & Kieron Gillen, illus. by Stephanie Hans
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai by Bradley P. Beaulieu
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Emperor of the Eight Islands by Lian Hearn
Of these, I’ve only read 1602: Witch Hunter Angela, which is a comic book that I consider part of the Marvel 1602 series by Neil Gaiman that places some of the Marvel characters in the year 1602. Witch Hunter Angela was an okay read. I didn’t love it, but it kept my interest. The illustrations, however, are superb.
As for the other books: I intend to start on The 5th Wave after completing Yancey’s Monstrumologist series, which I love and is paranormal historical fiction about a boy who’s an assistant to a monstrumologist — a scientist who studies monsters. I wanted to start Twelve Kings in Sharakhai couple days ago but didn’t get to it, and I still would like to read Six of Crows and The Emperor of the Eight Islands at some point.
Zezee with Books 
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai is on my TBR since forever… I keep telling myself that I want to read it but I keep procrastinating…. Sigh! But, sooner or later, I will do it!! 💪
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Lol same here. I took it down from my shelves to read and have yet to crack it open.
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The cover for 1602 is gorgeous but the fact that it’s Marvel makes me hesitate a bit because I’m really not familiar with the Marvel world and I’d probably miss a lot!
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I’m not familiar with the Marvel world at all, but I don’t think it greatly affected my reading of this. I intend to try the 1602 ones by Gaiman. I love the classic art-inspired covers too much.
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That’s good to know!! The covers are really nice!
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Thanks for reminding me that Beaulieu and Marvel 1602 are on the list.
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Lol no prob.
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I first learned about Bradley Beaulieu when he was cohosting a writing podcast and have wanted to try his Sharakhai books ever since. But instead of reading them I’ve just been slowly collecting them. 🙂 One day…
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Lol! Bookish procrastination there 🙂
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I’ve read The 5th Wave, and I didn’t love it though it still was an interesting read. I hope you enjoy these books when you get to them! 🖤
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Thanks!
I enjoy his Monstrumologist books so much that I’m hoping the 5th Wave ones are written similarly.
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The Six of Crows duology is definitely worth reading even if you don’t read any of the other books in the Grishaverse.
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That’s what I keep hearing and may have to do since I’ve kinda lost interest in the Shadow & Bone ones.
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The Six of Crows duology works perfectly well by itself 😀
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